Armoiries de la Slovénie

The Slovene coat of arms is an emblem that consists of a red bordered blue shield on which there is a stylised white Mount Triglav, under which there are two wavy lines representing the sea and the rivers of the country. Above Mount Triglav, there are three golden six-pointed stars representing the Counts of Celje. It was designed in 1991 by Marko Pogačnik and adopted on 24 June 1991. Historically the modern-day territory of Slovenia consisted of a number of historical lands and territories which were eventually all ruled by the Austrian House of Habsburg. Until the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the Slovene Lands did not have a coat of arms representing the whole nation, instead it had a different coat of arms for every land. Not every land however had its own coat of arms: Windic March, later part of the County of Cilli County of Cilli, later part of the Duchy of Carniola Duchy of Carniola southern Duchy of Carinthia Lower Duchy of Styria Slovene March in the Vas county of the Kingdom of Hungary, and the adjacent zones of the Zala county (Beltinci, Turnišče, Velika Polana, Kobilje) County of Gorizia and Gradisca, later part of the Austrian Littoral Istria (in the modern municipalities of Koper, Izola, Piran, Hrpelje-Kozina, Muggia and Dolina), part of the Austrian Littoral File:Arms of Windic March.svg|Arms of the Windic March File:Counts of Celje coat of arms (1-4).svg|Combined arms of the Counts of Cilli and Sannock File:Grb vojvodine Kranjske-CoA of Carniola.svg|Arms of the Duchy of Carniola File:Kaernten shield CoA.svg|Arms of the Duchy of Carinthia File:Steiermark Wappen (shield).svg|Arms of the Duchy of Styria File:Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca Coat of Arms.svg|Arms of the County of Gorizia and Gradisca File:Coat of arms of the Austrian Littoral.svg|Arms of the Austrian Littoral When the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs merged with Kingdom of Serbia, Slovenia had its first real coat of arms, which actually was a heavily modified one from the Serbian Kingdom.